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What is Vault

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Vault comes with various pluggable components called secrets engines and authentication methods allowing you to integrate with external systems. The purpose of those components is to manage and protect your secrets in dynamic infrastructure (e.g. database credentials, passwords, API keys).

Vault Triangle

Getting Started tutorials will give you a quick tour of HashiCorp Vault. Follow the getting started tutorials in sequential order to complete them successfully.

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    Vault secures, stores, and tightly controls access to tokens, passwords, certificates, API keys, and other secrets in modern computing. Get started here.
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